Where does “nanolaminate” come from?
nanolaminate (English) comes from English nano, from English nano-, from Latin nānus, from Ancient Greek νᾶνος — dwarf.
nanolaminate (English): A fully dense, ultra-fine-grained solid...
Definitions
- A fully dense, ultra-fine-grained solid...
Ancestry of “nanolaminate”, step by step
nanolaminate traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English nano
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | nano | Nanotechnology |
| 2 | English | nano- | API; In the International System of Units and... |
| 3 | Latin | nānus | dwarf |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | νᾶνος | dwarf |
via English laminate
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | laminate | To assemble from thin sheets glued together; To... |
| 2 | Latin | lamina | a thin piece or sheet of metal, wood, marble,... |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | stelh₃- | broad, to broaden |